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Autumn Moon at Tamachi
Autumn Moon at Tamachi from the series "Eight Views of the Shiba District in the Capital City"
ca. 1839-1840Edo Period (1600-1868)
9 13/16 x 14 5/16 in. (24.9 x 36.4 cm)
Ando Hiroshige
Japan (Edo, 1797 - 1858, Edo)
Full Title:Autumn Moon at Tamachi from the series "Eight Views of the Shiba District in the Capital City"
Object Type:
Print
Medium and Support:
Color woodcut
Credit Line:
Gift of Dr. James B. Austin
Accession Number:
1987.34.4
Location: Not currently on view
Publisher:
EchizenyaPortfolio: Eight Views of Temples in the Shiba District (alternatively, Eight Views of Shib
"Autumn Moon at Tamachi" echoes "Autumn Moon over Lake Dongting." This print contains the publisher's seal only of Echizen-ya Heisaburô. The script near the roof-beam of the red shrine names the building as the Hachiman Shrine, also known as Samezu Jinja or "Shark's Head Shrine" for the statue of the sacred Buddhist deity Kannon that a founding legend of Edo claims fishermen found in the belly of a shark pulled from the bay near this spot. The light of the harvest moon in this lovely autumn night view makes the city rooftops appear to glow whitely below the shrine to Hachiman, the god of war and one of the important cult deities of the Tokugawa house.
Bibliography
See general mention in Shozaburo Watanabe, "Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Hiroshige's Works on the 60th Anniversary of his Death," 1918, p. 27; cat. no. 115 describes the set, Eight Views of Shiba, Yedo. [See http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/watanabe/catalogue_103_133.htm, no. 115.] This print is entitled "Tamachi no Shugetsu" or "Autumn Moon at Tamachi."
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- Japanese Prints from the Floating World Memorial Art Gallery 2/25/2005 - 5/8/2005
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Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Hiroshige's Work
Online version of Shozaburo Watanabe's book: Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of Hiroshige's Work on the 60th Anniversary of his Death, Tokyo: Ukiyoye Association, 1918. This work is listed under catalogue no. 115, Tamachi No Shugetsu, Autumn Moon at Tamachi.